41.   On two previous occasions, Reno rejected advice to seek an outside criminal inquiry of Gore.

42.   Prosecutors would later complain that Ginsburg, a California specialist in civil malpractice cases, had little understanding of how a criminal inquiry worked.

43.   Prosecutors say that as a legal matter, the dismissal has no bearing on the criminal inquiry.

44.   Prosecutors opened a criminal inquiry.

45.   Russia has not helped the U.S. criminal inquiry.

46.   Several of the individuals who filed the suits were said to have provided information that Government investigators used in developing their criminal inquiry.

47.   Starr has not said publicly what he will do in his still-active criminal inquiry into the president.

48.   That expectation was quickly met, as some advisers to the president said that the decision meant that the criminal inquiry in the Lewinsky affair was no longer relevant.

49.   Swiss officials have frozen the accounts and are carrying out a criminal inquiry to pinpoint how the money was transferred out of Nigeria and into Switzerland.

50.   The appointment of Smaltz means that the Clinton administration will face two separate criminal inquiries by independent prosecutors.